The event will address the implementation of the Pacific Blue Continent Strategy 2050, which aims to promote Pacific regionalism over the next three decades and articulate the key long-term visions, values and priorities in the Pacific region.
The Cuban delegation will be composed of the Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, Adianez Taboada, the Director for Asia and Oceania of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ariel Lorenzo Rodríguez, and the Cuban Ambassador to New Zealand, concurrently in the Cook Islands, Edgardo Valdes.
According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the event’s agenda will also include climate confrontation, an area in which the largest of the Antilles and the Pacific Islands have numerous opportunities for cooperation due to their shared status as small island states and the challenge of development. in an unfair and unequal world.
Since 2010, Cuba has participated in all meetings of the Pacific Islands Forum and since 2013, the Caribbean country has participated in the event as a dialogue partner of the organization, as a sign of recognition of the small island states of the South Pacific to those active Cuba is working to improve its health services and training its human resources.
The island’s representatives are expected to participate in the working committees assigned to the dialogue partners and hold bilateral meetings with the member countries of the forum.
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